Research

Research keywords

Bioinformatics

Combinatorial Optimisation

Data Mining

Operations Research

Robotics

Research expertise

I have co-authored a total of 67 publications, including book chapters, journals and conferences articles. My publications have been cited over 800 times (Google Scholar). I have also been awarded, as co-chief investigator, seven research grants and direct industry research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Energy Australia, the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and from The University of Newcastle, totalling just above AU$ 860,000.

I am a reviewer of several international journals, including Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Entropy, Energies, Memetic Computing, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C, Optimization Letters, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Production Planning & Control, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Soft Computing and Journal of Heuristics.

I have reviewed papers the following conferences, as well:

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005)

33rd National Congress of Applied Mathematics and Computing (CNMAC2010)

I am also a reviewer 'of international standing' for the Australian Research Council (ARC):

Discovery projects (since 2006)

Laureate Fellowships (2009)

Future Fellowships (2012-2013)

DECRA projects (2012)

Linkage projects (2013-2014)

Languages

English

Portuguese

Spanish

Fields of Research

Code

Description

Percentage

080108

Neural, Evolutionary And Fuzzy Computation

55

080110

Simulation And Modelling

30

080101

Adaptive Agents And Intelligent Robotics

15

Awards

Best paper in International Conference.

2012

Best student paper award - A Novel Approach to Ball Detection for Humanoid Robot Soccer25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Australia)As the supervisor of Computer Engineering Final Year Project student Mr. David Budden, who was the leading author of the publication.

2003

Best paper award - Applying Memetic Algorithms to the Analysis of Microarray DataEvoBIO2003 - 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Bioinformatics (United Kingdom)Best paper award for the research on the use of memetic algorithms for clustering microarray gene expression data.

Research Award.

2011

Pro Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research ExcellenceFaculty of Engineering and Built Environment - The University of Newcastle (Australia)In recognition for "outstanding track record relative to opportunity".

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Administrative responsibilities within the Discipline of Computer Science and Software Engineering include:

Head of Discipline - CSSE (since March 2014)

Acting Head of Discipline - CSSE (2nd semester, 2013)

Acting Computer Science Honours Coordinator (2nd semester, 2012)

NUbots Deputy Team Leader (since October 2011)

Marketing Coordinator (since June 2011)

Seminar Coordinator (Januarsiy 2005 - December 2012)

Help Desk Coordinator (March 2011 - December 2012)

I am currently supervising three PhD students and have participated in over 15 committees for PhD and Masters confirmations in Australia and overseas. In addition, I have supervised Final Year Projects of three Software Engineering and two Computer Engineering students.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

C++ and Data Structures

Matlab and C

Software Architecture

Work Integrated Learning

Teaching expertise

I have been lecturing since semester 1, 2008. My courses are in C, C++, Matlab, Data Structures, Software Development and Software Architecture. Those courses have students from all years of the programs of Computer Science and Software Engineering, as well as Information Technology and several other Engineering programs. Class sizes vary from as small as 6 (COMP3850) up to 350 students (GENG1003):

SENG2130 - Software Development

SENG1120/6120 - Introduction to Software Engineering II

SENG4420 - Software Architecture

GENG1803 - Introduction to Engineering Practice

SENG3130/6140 - Software Architecture & Quality Management

GENG1003 - Introduction to Procedural Programming

COMP3850 - Computer Science Work Integrated Learning

In 2009, I completed the Graduate Certificate in the Practice of Tertiary Teaching, through the Centre for Teaching and Learning, after taking the following courses:

TEHE6010 - Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning

Moscato PA, Mendes ADS, Cotta C, 'Scheduling and production & control: MA', Studies in fuzziness and soft computing - new optimization techniques in engineering, Springer, New York Not Known (2004) [B1]

Research Supervision

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced

ProposedCompletion

Program

Supervisor Type

Research Title

2014

2018

PhD (Computer Science)

Co-Supervisor

Feature Selection and Metaheuristic-based Aggregation of Recommender Systems for Image Processing Using Crowd-sourced Information and Their Potential Applications in Digital Pathology and Information-based Medicine

2014

2018

PhD (Computer Science)

Co-Supervisor

Intelligent Controller Design.

2010

2015

PhD (Computer Science)

Co-Supervisor

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